USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which Congressional leader proposed the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise Tariff of 1833, and helped to resolve the disputed election of 1824?
A
John Quincy Adams
B
Henry Clay
C
Daniel Webster
D
John C. Calhoun
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Henry Clay, a leading congressman, played a crucial role in brokering a two-part solution known as the Missouri Compromise. First, Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state, but would be balanced by the admission of Maine, a free state, that had long wanted to be separated from Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Calhoun, and President Andrew Jackson-Olive Branch and Sword: The Compromise of 1833 tells of the political and rhetorical dueling that brought about the Compromise of 1833, resolving the crisis of the Union caused by South Carolina’s nullification of the protective tariff.

Detailed explanation-3: -Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, a leading statesman and member of the Whig Party known as “The Great Compromiser” for his work on the Missouri Compromise, was the primary creator of the Missouri Compromise.

Detailed explanation-4: -Seeking a way to settle the dispute and prevent disunion, Speaker Clay promoted a compromise to allow slavery in Missouri while simultaneously admitting Maine as a free state.

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